30 years...

[cmailliard]

I bought my wife an 8.1 laptop last year and I still cannot figure out how to add a printer, it is now a doorstop and she is using my old MacBook Air. I have been on a Mac for the last 4 years and love it. Yes it has issues as well, but nowhere near the issues that Windows has.

My last year at JeffCo I was using a $300 Chromebook that worked better than any of the Windows machines in the building. Even after IT said I could not print and they posted on the support page "Printing is available on Google Chromebooks" I was up and printing in under 3 minutes from anywhere in the building. I posted how to do on our Learning Management System and other teachers were able to do the same thing. IT still kept telling people you could not print from a Chromebook. I had all 60 of my students printing from their Chromebooks as well (when needed). I was pretty much paperless my last year. A $300 web-based machine kicked the shit out of a crapware IT bloated POS Dell.

Windows is flaming bag of dogshit on the porch of life. The only reason it is still used in the corporate world is it allows IT to be needed. If shit didn't break all the time there would not be much of a need for support tickets, waiting on hold, and beating your Dell into the drywall.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Mac.

[roberth]

Windows....the worlds biggest virus.

Hey Brutal - it ain't a bug...its a feature!

[Gman]

I don't have printing issues on Windows or Mac. I can however scan to PDF with my Windows PCs, which is something I can't do on Mac.

Who is going to be first on their block to upgrade to El Capitan tomorrow? Good luck!

[Big E3]

Eric Snowden warned us...

Is that Edward's brother, and what does he know?

[BushMasterBoy]

Is that Edward's brother, and what does he know?

His evil twin...lol...my bad

[hatidua]

I can however scan to PDF with my Windows PCs, which is something I can't do on Mac.

scan - open scan in PS - save as .pdf

[ben4372]

My biggest fault with MS and the Windows way is the way it spread to the rest of the world. Even car are being sold in a beta state. And for all the Apple fanboys, of which I may be one day. My work iphone gets an IOS update once a month. Car dealers are always checking and updating vehicles. Windows has made it acceptable to release a product that is only 80% finished. All with the promise of an update to fix what should have never left the factory.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I don't have printing issues on Windows or Mac. I can however scan to PDF with my Windows PCs, which is something I can't do on Mac.

?!?!? I can scan to PDF on my Mac using my HP All-in-One, been able to do that since Snow Leopard. The only thing I've seen that I could do on Windows and not on Mac was easily edit (in bulk) the EXIF information on my pictures.

I'm almost never the first one on the block to adopt a new product and not going to start now. I prefer the Mac to Windows but I saw no reason to upgrade to Yosemite and still don't.

[brutal]

Who prints stuff anymore anyways?

Printing uses paper. Paper comes from trees. Less trees leads to climate change and global warming. Climate change and global warming is bad for baby seals and dolphins. Every time you hit that print button you are killing cute, innocent animals. If you print enough stuff who knows what could happen. Unicorns could become extinct.

I know that's tongue in cheek.

However, I was printing load data from a spreadsheet I keep and like to make notes on paper while I work at the bench. This should be simple right? HP1020 printer shared from my Win7 "server." Printing from my (corporate image) Win7 VM running under VM Workstation. Randomly decides to print - or not. Frustrating. I don't recall it always being so stubborn. I think one of the recent VMware or SEP updates is fucking it up worse. Often, I print to pdf and pick it up elsewhere via dropbox, but in this particular case the xlsx spreadsheet doesn't format well in Open Office on my personal server, and the host OS on my corporate laptop doesn't have any firearm files synced via dropbox.

Yea, I have Linux VM's for specific things I need to do/use. Sadly, Windows is a defacto requirement for many of the utilities and tools required for the myriad of devices I work on. Some day, they'll all be 100% (functionally) browser based or easily usable via command line, and not need some lame tweaked out version of java as well, but until that day, I'm stuck with Winders.

In all seriousness, I'm also a firm believer that we are using renewable resources when we use wood and paper products. It's a self-maintaining industry that creates jobs and strengthens the working class.